Example sentences of "then [pron] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 2 | Then I went for a walk with Mr Sargent . ’ |
| 3 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 4 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |
| 5 | Then she went for a walk . |
| 6 | Then she thought for a moment . |
| 7 | Then we went for a walk out in the garden . |
| 8 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 9 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 10 | Then he paused for a moment . |
| 11 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 12 | Then he thought for a moment , and began to smile . |
| 13 | Then he fumbled for a cigarette , lit it clumsily , and sat drawing in smoke as if it were a narcotic . |
| 14 | In semi-darkness , she waited , hearing the sound of a key grating against metal , and then he fumbled for a moment , muttering to himself in Italian . |
| 15 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |